Christmas Day this year is a Saturday, Boxing Day a Sunday and weigh-in Monday Morning!! Oh My.

Usually my family and I have cereal followed by a full english breakfast, oh and juice, hot toast and jam...kinda like 3 courses as we eat Christmas Dinner late with our external family. 13 of us in total, and I do the cooking. Another 3 courses of traditional xmas dinner.

Then late in the evening we have a buffet.

I really wish to follow the plan even over Christmas, so....lovely people may I ask for your ideas and suggestions for keeping the day low syned?

Also, any recipes suitable for the X-mas period with or without photos would be appreciated as we repeat the whole process on Boxing day with my in-laws, and then have another buffet New Years Eve!!

Starters, main courses, desserts, buffet foods, drinks....lets get this thread heaving ready for the Jolly Period

For breakfast weigh your cereal & have your hexb. The full english can be SW friendly if you use frylight to fry eggs, bacon etc (cut off the fat), you'll need to syn the toast & jam. Skip the juice, you'll need the syns for later Christmas dinner, and the buffet can all be made SW friendly. You'll need to either skip or syn things like stuffing, cranberry sauce etc.

Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/Gas 4. In a bowl, mix together the flour, spices, low-fat spread and Splenda until well combined and then stir in the beaten egg.

Bring the dough together, wrap in cling film, and refrigerate for half an hour. Remove, divide the dough into two (working in batches is easier), and roll each piece out to 5mm thick.

Cut out using a 2in/5cm star cutter and place onto a non-stickbaking tray lined with parchment. Create a hole in each biscuit big enough to thread a ribbon through later. Bake for 12 minutes and leave to cool on the tray.

To decorate, mix the icing sugar with just enough water to make athin icing and drizzle on each biscuit. Decorate with the sprinkles and leave to set.

Thread coloured ribbon through each biscuit and hang on the tree on Christmas Eve. (They’ll start to soften after a couple of days so don’t forget to tuck in!)

There's actually a Slimming World Festive Food & Fun recipe book that you can get...I'm not sure whether you can get it in class, I got mine on ebay. It has lots of nice recipes in it, but I'm afraid it's packed up in my new house at the moment so i can't type any up at the moment! xxx

Christmas Day this year is a Saturday, Boxing Day a Sunday and weigh-in Monday Morning!! Oh My

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if you go to class you better check to see if its on as the monday will be classed as(a holiday boxing day) as the proper day falls on a sunday and you dont get a holiday day on a sunday
if that makes any sense at all

Christmas Day this year is a Saturday, Boxing Day a Sunday and weigh-in Monday Morning!! Oh My.

Usually my family and I have cereal followed by a full english breakfast, oh and juice, hot toast and jam...kinda like 3 courses as we eat Christmas Dinner late with our external family. 13 of us in total, and I do the cooking. Another 3 courses of traditional xmas dinner.

Then late in the evening we have a buffet.

I really wish to follow the plan even over Christmas, so....lovely people may I ask for your ideas and suggestions for keeping the day low syned?

Also, any recipes suitable for the X-mas period with or without photos would be appreciated as we repeat the whole process on Boxing day with my in-laws, and then have another buffet New Years Eve!!

Starters, main courses, desserts, buffet foods, drinks....lets get this thread heaving ready for the Jolly Period

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Sue I think you'll find the Monday and Tuesday are holidays so doubt there will be any meetings. Also there is a recipe book out this week with Christmas recipes.

Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/Gas 4. In a bowl, mix together the flour, spices, low-fat spread and Splenda until well combined and then stir in the beaten egg.

Bring the dough together, wrap in cling film, and refrigerate for half an hour. Remove, divide the dough into two (working in batches is easier), and roll each piece out to 5mm thick.

Cut out using a 2in/5cm star cutter and place onto a non-stickbaking tray lined with parchment. Create a hole in each biscuit big enough to thread a ribbon through later. Bake for 12 minutes and leave to cool on the tray.

To decorate, mix the icing sugar with just enough water to make athin icing and drizzle on each biscuit. Decorate with the sprinkles and leave to set.

Thread coloured ribbon through each biscuit and hang on the tree on Christmas Eve. (They’ll start to soften after a couple of days so don’t forget to tuck in!)

I was on the goodtoknow recipes website the other day and they had a recipe for SW Christmas Biscuits:

Thanks hun gonna try making these with the kids!!

I've also seen the Christmasd book you mentioned, a bargin at £2.50 and now a brand new book is out too Christmas made extra easy!! Had a flick through and going to get a 12 week countdown and the new book free for doing so lol

For breakfast weigh your cereal & have your hexb. The full english can be SW friendly if you use frylight to fry eggs, bacon etc (cut off the fat), you'll need to syn the toast & jam. Skip the juice, you'll need the syns for later Christmas dinner, and the buffet can all be made SW friendly. You'll need to either skip or syn things like stuffing, cranberry sauce etc.

Have you searched the threads for ideas for previous christmases?

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Thanks for this, tho had some time to think and do i really need a 3 course breakfast? I re-read my original post and thought wow, why do we eat so much!!

Our X-mas dinner will be SW friendly for all so less faffing about. Watch this space lol. I have found some past x-mas posts that may come in handy later lol

if you go to class you better check to see if its on as the monday will be classed as(a holiday boxing day) as the proper day falls on a sunday and you dont get a holiday day on a sunday
if that makes any sense at all

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Hmm not so sure, I joined on the May Bank Holiday Monday, and there were classes on the August bank Holiday. If I remember rightly tho, some classes joined together in our city for the x-mas and New Year weeks...tho that was 10 years ago lol. I'll check with my consultant

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